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Below is a list of latest famous books, their authors and the publications from where these books have been published. Remember the names and don't forget to share this post to friends: 

1. Sikkim, Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom  - By Andrew Duff, Random House India

2. The Making of India  - By Akhilesh Tilotia, Rupa Publications Delhi

3. Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire  - By Seema Aldir, Harvard University Press

4. The Challenge of Things : Thinking Through Troubled Times  - By AC Grayling, Bloomsbury

5. Hadal: Inspired by a True Story  - By C P Surendran, Fourth Estate

6. Conflict Resolution in Multi Cultural Societies -  The Indian Experience - By Jhumpa Mukherjee

7. Modi's World : Expanding India's Sphere of Influence   - By C. Raja Mohan, Harper Collins

The book presents a sharp analysis of India's chal­lenges in navigating a rapidly transforming regional and international landscape under Narendra Modi. 

8. Unbound : 2000 Years of Indian Women's Writing  - Edited by Annie Zaidi, Aleph Book company

9. The Emergency : A Personal History  - By Coomi Kapoor, Penguin Viking

10. The Pakistan Paradox : Instability and Resilience - By Christaphe Jaffrelot, Random Home India 

11. Nehru : A Troubled Legacy - By R. N. P. Singh

12. Farthest Field : An Indian Story of the Second World War - By Raghu Karnad, WW Norton & Company

13. The Devil Take Love - By Sudhir Kakar, Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Books

The book is a fictional account of the life, love and lyrics of Sanskrit poet Bhartrihari

14. Breaking Through : India's Stories of Beating the odds on Poverty  - By Meera Mitra, Rupa, Delhi

The book is a compilation of real life stories of people who despite years of state planning and funding, are still strug­gling to claw their way out of the poverty sink hole.

15. Kashmir : The Vajpayee Years  - By A. S. Dulat, with Aditya Sinha, Harper Collins

16. The Country of First Boys  - By Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Oxford University Press

17. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong : The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet  - By Gyalo Thondup Anne F Thurston, Random House India

18. Knowledgeable Strategy  - By Parag Kulkarni, Bloomsburg

19. The Raj at War; A People's History of India's Second World War - By Yasmin Khan, Random House, India

20. The Devourers  -  By Indra Das, Penguin India

21. The Cosmopolitans -  By Anjum Hasan, Penguin Anjum 

22. Himalayan Bound : An American's Journey with Normads in India  - By Michael Benanav, Harper Collins, India. 

23. The Untold Truth  - By Retd. Ltd. General P. N. Hoon, a former Army commander of the prestigious command. 

 24. War on Women  - By Roger Stone

25. JFK's Forgotten Crisis, the CIA and the Sino-IndianWar  - By Bruce Riedel

In this book the author reveals that Late Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru PM of India sought US help during Sino India War in 1962.

26. Neither A Hawk Nor A Dove  - By Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Pakistan's former foreign minister

27. Resurgent India : Ideas and Priorities  - By Ramgopal Agrawala, Rajiv Kumar, Rajesh Shah,

Academic Foundation 

28. The Art of Shantiniketan  - Edited by Kishore Singh, DAG Modern

29. The Modi Effect  - By Lance Price

30. India  - By Steve McCurry, Phaidon Roli Books

31. Dial D for Don  - By Neeraj Kumar, former Delhi Police Commissioner 

32. The Island of Lost Girls  - By Manjula Padmanabhan, Hachette India

33. GDP : A Brief but Affectionate History  - By Diane Coyle, Princeton University Press.

34. Nine Scorpions in a Bottle     - By Max Lerner. 

35. The Story of AL Qaeda's War on the House of Saud  - By Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker

36. Prince of Ayodhya  - By Ashok K. Banker. It is the Ramayan, but told in a very interesting manner. The plot is the same as the epic, but what is amazing is that it is written from another point of view. The characters are not gods but mortals flawed human beings.

37. This Unquiet Land : Stories from India's Fault Lines  - By Barkha Dutt, Aleph Book Company

38. Kanu's Gandhi  - By Kanu Gandhi, Nazar Foundation Kanu Gandhi was Mahatma Gandhi's grand nephew and photo-chronicler of the last 10 years of his life.

39. The Substance and the Shadow  - An autobiography by celebrated actor Dilip Kumar

40. Caravans : Indian Merchants on the Silk Road  - By Scott C. Levi, Panguin

41. A Strangeness in My Mind  - By Orhan Pamuk

42. The Phoenix Moment: Challenges Confronting the Indian Left  - By Praful Bidwai, Harper Collins

43. For King and Another Country  - By Shrabani Basu, Bloomsbury .

44. Working out of the Box  - By Aparna Piramal Raje, Random House T

45. Legal Confidential : Adventures of an Indian Lawyer   - By Ranjeev C Dubey, Penguin

46. Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities  - By Jayati Bhattacharya and Coonoor Kriplani,

Anthem Press

47. Abode Under the Dome; State Guests at Raisina Hill  - By Thomas Mathew; Publication Division Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India 

48. The 'Z' Factor : My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time   - By Dr. Subhash Chandra

49. Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism : Emerging Muslim Identity in a Globalised India

 - By Tabassum Ruhi Khan, Oxford University Press 

50. JFK's Forgotten Crisis : Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-lndian War  - By Bruce Riedel, Harper Collins

51. A Handbook for My Lover —By Rosalyn D' Mello

52. Going for Gold —By Nanda Menon

53. 1962 : The War That Wasn't —By Shiv Kunal Verma, Aleph

54. The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy —Edited by David Malone, C. Raja Mohan, Srinath Raghavan, Oxford University Press

55. Incarnations : India in 50 lives —By Sunil Khilnani, Penguin

56. Friends in Wild Places : Birds, Beasts and Other Companions—By Ruskin Bond, Speaking Tiger

57. India-Myanmar Relations : Changing Contours —By Rajiv Bhatia, Routledge India

58. In Other Words —By jhumpa Lahiri, Bloombsbury

59. Fixed ! Cash and Corruption in Cricket —By Shantanu Guha Ray, Harper Collins

60. The Great Animal Orchestra —By Bernie Krause
61. The Living - By Anjali Joseph, Harper Collins
62. Six Lenses : Vignettes of Success, Career and Relationships - By R. Gopalakrishnan, Rupa
63. Cameron on Cameron - By David Cameron, Prime Minister of Britain

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